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Medicine and Ethics

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Advocate   One who pleads the cause of another; one who defends or maintains a cause of proposal.  
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Allocating   Apportioning for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things  
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Annotations   notes added by way of comment or explantion  
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Beneficence   The act of doing or producing good, especially preforming acts of kindness or charity.  
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Clinical trials   research studies that test how well new medical treatments or other interventions work in the subjects, usually human beings.  
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Disparities   marked differences or distinctions  
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Disposition   The tendency of something or someone to act a certain way under given circumstances.  
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Duty   obligatory tasks, conduct service, or functions, that arise from ones position, as in life or in a group.  
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Euthanasia   The act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy.  
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Fidelity   Faithfullness to something to which one is bound by pledge or duty.  
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Gamete   Mature male or female germ calls, usually possession of haploid chromosomes set and capable of initiating formation of a a new diploid individual. a sex whether a sperm or ovum.  
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Genome   The genetic material of an organism.  
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Idealism   The practice of forming ideas or living under the influence of ideas.  
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Impaired   Being in a less than perfect or less than whole conditions, it includes having handicaps or functional defects and being under the influence of drugs, alcohol, and/or controlled substances  
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Infertile   Not fertile or productive; not capable of reproducing.  
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Introspection   An inward, reflective examination of ones thoughts and feelings  
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Justice   With regard to medical ethics, the fair distribution of benefits and burdens among individuals or gorps in society with legitimate claims on those benefits.  
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Nonmaleficence   Refraining from the act of harming or committing evil.  
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Opinions   Formal expressions of judgement or advice by an expert; formed expressions of the legal reasons and principles on which a legal decision is based.  
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Philosopher   A person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment; an expounder of theory in a certain area of expertise.  
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Post mortem   Done, collected. Occurring after death.  
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Procurement   to get possession of, to obtain by particular care and effort  
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Public Domain   The realm embracing property rights that belong to the community at large, are unprotected by copyright or patent and are subject to use or appropriation by anyone  
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Ramifications   Consequence produced by a cause or following from a set of conditions  
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Reparations   Amends, act of atonement, or satisfaction given as a result of a wrong or injury  
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Sociologic   Oriented or directed toward social needs and problems  
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Surrogate   A substitute; to put in place of another  
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Unique Identifiers   Codes used instead of names to protect the confidentiality of the patient in a method of anonymous HIV testing  
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Veracity   A devotion to or conformity with the truth.  
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